The Guinness Book of Records lists the Flyer as the most inexpensive car of all time, selling at US$125 to US$150 (equivalent to $2020 to $2430 in 2021). Briggs & Stratton made engine improvements that raised the horsepower and renamed the vehicle the Briggs & Stratton Flyer. The Flyer had a small gasoline engine mounted on a fifth wheel, or motor wheel. In 1919 Briggs & Stratton purchased the manufacturing rights for a small, simple two-seat vehicle with a gasoline engine called the Smith Flyer from the A.O. Eventually Briggs and Stratton settled on manufacturing automotive components and small gasoline engines. Stratton started an informal partnership to capitalize on the growing automobile industry.
In 1908, inventor Stephen Foster Briggs and investor Harold M. 7 Headquarters, manufacturing plants and testing facilities.2 Acquisitions, agreements and joint ventures.
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